The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-06

of She will be Laura Clement English light opera
singer, who came here q year two ago under con-
tract to D'Oyly Carte.
Henry Irving has brought ninety people for
Faust IN addition to an electrician. gasman, cal
eium-light man and master carpenter.
Queen Victoria lately presented Wilson Barrett
with large portrait of herself in return for one OF
that actor s deceased wife, Caroline Heath.
Mile. Melva, the prima donna who has just
greater volume than PATHS People who wish TO
hear this woman sing when she comes to America
should begin to save money at once.
John A. Mackay will start on a tour next month
with farce-comedy whose original title is "A
It first acted at Ealing Eng. English criticism
speak fayorably of it. Its name will be changed.
Colonel McCaulls Comic Opera Company viii fol-
low Mrs. James Brown Potter at the Fifthavenue
Theater with work called the Begun which
is said to surpass THE Mikado in the charm of its
melodies and in the picturesqueness of its settings
The reliable LIE Menestrsl states that Nicolini
catches average twenty salmon weighing from
twenty to thirty pounds his daily piscatorial
cursions to the Usk river. AS salmon brings 5 cents
pound it will be that the great tenor is doing
well financially
produced at the Madisonsquare Theater. The piece
is to DO rechristened IA Daughter of the Street. "
ney ceweiI Franz Tannehill SOY. Harry Lee and pos
sbly Genevieve Lytton, of Mrs. Potter's company.
Sir Arthur Sullivan has tried his hand at oper-
attic work of higher pretensions than the humane
''Mikado'' and the gentle Patience" Mary Stuart
is the title of grand tragic on which he is just
putting the finishing touches and which will be per-
formed during the next London season with Mrne
Albani in the title role.
Carlotta Bordeaux, soubrette of watkins's "Catnip
Tea company, made hit in the first act at the
Lyceum Theater, Baltimore last Monday night and
then refused to again because her name was not
properly printed in the programmes. After consider
able delay the soubrete reented the manager having
promised to remove further cause of complaint
Nine. Modjeska received the news of the death of
her mother in Poland after leaving the stage of the
Omaha Opera house, last Saturday night. on which
nouncemen was received just before the
but the news was wisely Kept from the actress until
the curtain dropped and she had reached her hotel
The Carleton Opera Company will probably bring
out at New Orleans the London operate sensation
Dorothy" which has been running for the past two
New York on Nov Z, by j: G. Duff Mr.. Carleton
has the exclusive rights for the in all territory
outside of New York excepting Boston and Chicago.
accordance with the plans of M Bees the designer of
the Flemish Theater there. He believes that the
thick stratum of heated air through which the voices
of the actors have pass to reach the audience OBJ
sructs and deadens the sound For the footights he
has substituted pie range of gasghts behind the
orchestra.
Henry Irvings fve-weeks' season at the Star Thea
production will be pictorial to extent surprising
Irving's most pronounced efforts. The Stars stage
provide the traps slides and sinks required Irving
as Mephistopheles, will disappear in the end through
steam trap effect that was uncommon1y mystify
ing in the London production. The Irving season is
to last five weeks.
Mr.. Abbey has decided to begin his Mary Anderson
season in New York in the Star Theater on Nov. -
1888. Miss Anderson will play there six weeks, and
then go to Boston for of three weeks The
French actor, Coquein, opens under Mr.. Abbey's
management in Rio de Janeiro next June. axes tour
of South America, then goes to Havana, aud from
there New York where he will the Star Oct
8. 1888, for three weeks season. From there he
will make tour of the principal cities of the
try, including San Francisco, and then give
in Mexico at the end of which he will sail for France
direct.
Lotta's business has been something phenomena
even for her-ever since she started her tour in
the early part OF September Her three weeks at Nc
Vickers Theater in Chicago resulted in receipts of
1927 900. of which the greater part drawn
by the performance of her neg play Pawn Ticket No
21O." The general consens9s OF opinion to be
that in Pawn Ticket No. Lolita is provided with
much better vehicle for her unique talent than any
Both the piece and the actress to have attracted
a vast deal more newspaper comment this year than
is generally accorded to weliknown fixed star
Lolita.